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Gbea - A Poem

By Dibussi Tande (Culled from No Turning Back: Poems of Freedom 1990-1993 - Available on Amazon.com and Michigan State University Press)

I look at your sores
And I feel the pain of our misery
I walk in your squalor
And I sense our impotence
I witness your slow decay
And my soul slowly dies.

I bask in your torrential downpour
Just to hide my cascading tears
I wait for your mountain's rumble
To drown my cries of anguish
Your blinding gray fog
Barely masks our powerlessness
I stare up into your Amazon-like greenery
And I visualize the gigantic hurdles
On our path to freedom.

But I love you still;
For our determination
Springs from your misery;
In your squalor lies
Tomorrow's beauties;
On your present pain
Sprouts tomorrow's hopes;
From this decay
Shall emerge a new order
That shall bring forth
The promised land.

Picture of Buea reproduced courtesy of het meisje met het rode kapje

Posted on Friday, October 05, 2007 at 08:38 PM in Poetry | Permalink

Technorati Tags: Africa, Buea, Cameroon, Fako, Poetry

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Simply Moving.

It unravels the work to be done to make that sweet town a real place to be.

Posted by: George Esunge Fominyen | Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 04:21 PM

I Love this poem, man. It is just beautiful. When I look at the shot of Buea Town from the Council Hill, it just brings back a flood of memories. Great work man, keep it up.

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